People

At the beginning of the year Marion Helmes replaced her predecessor Christian Holzherr, who in October had unexpectedly left Celesio at his own request. The Supervisory Board appointed the doctor of business administration on 20 December. She is responsible for Finance & Treasury, Controlling, Accounting, Tax, HR and IT. Helmes comes from Q-Cells, where she gave up her post as Chief Financial Officer a few weeks ago.

Thomas Kremer, General Counsel of ThyssenKrupp, is to succeed Manfred Balz at Deutsche Telekom. The Bonn Group and ThyssenKrupp would not comment.

Thomas Enders is to succeed Louis Gallois as CEO of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) at the end of May. The current CEO of EADS will as planned give up his post on the board on 31 May after five years. Instead Jean-Claude Trichet moves onto the committee as new member. The 69-year-old French financier was until recently President of the European Central Bank (ECB). In the first year after his retirement from the central bank Trichet has to get its permission before he takes a new post.

Professor Martin Rohr left HOCHTIEF at the turn of the year. The engineering graduate exercised his contractual right to early termination, which allows managers to retire upon a change of ownership, the Essen-based company announced on 20 December. Rohr gave the reason for his withdrawal as his personal life planning.

Guillaume de Posch, Chief Operating Officer at the RTL Group since the beginning of the year, has resigned his Supervisory Board post at Sky Deutschland with effect from 5 January. The former head of ProSiebenSat.1 adduces conflicts of interest in connection with his new Board membership at the Luxembourg media group as the reason.

At the Annual General Meeting on 23 January Hero Brahms left the Supervisory Board of Wincor Nixdorf. As seen on the invitation to the shareholders’ meeting, he was replaced by Professor Edgar Ernst.